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Divergent, Great Stories, And Good Writing

The book series was one more hot story that had fans craving the next book and the next. Granted, though the first book opened as #6 on the NY Times best-selling list, it didn’t reach the stature of Twilight or Hunger Games and certainly not of Harry Potter. Still, it had a loyal and avid following. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Steve Laube on Marcher Lord Press Regenerating Into Enclave Publishing

New owner Steve Laube shares more about the Christian fantasy and sci-fi publisher’s future story. · E. Stephen Burnett

Godzilla Is Not Dead

There is one thing God and Godzilla have in common. People keep thinking they’ve been killed off, only to watch them come back to life. · R. L. Copple

Visual Impact

Have we been trained over the last few years by movies to only like certain styles of story-telling? · R. L. Copple

Readers Sound Off

Readers never get heard. Writers are told to write to their audience, but who ever asks that audience what kind of books they want to read? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

The Meaning Of Life

It is the readers who decide what is quality fiction. It is readers who decide what will be classics or not. · R. L. Copple

Getting The Most Out Of Conferences

What makes the expense of traveling to a conference, paying for tuition and room and board, spending two or more days away from family and the regular routine of life, worth it? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Confessions Of A Spec-Fic Convert

We all know it: The Look that magically appears when you try to explain your favorite fandom to your non-geek friends. · Katie Morford

The Plowing Of Hades

When we speculate, it becomes a story. When God speculates, it becomes reality. · R. L. Copple

Agenda Fiction Is Alive and Well

The purpose of fiction is to experience the truth lived out in real life. Even if that real life is in the future, past, or a fantasy world. · R. L. Copple

Quality Is As Quality Does

Karen Watson suggests that people who scoff at Christian fiction probably haven’t read it lately. Well, have you? · R. L. Copple

What Does The Reader Say?

What does a Christian Speculative Fiction reader consider quality fiction? · R. L. Copple

The Speed Of Excellence

I certainly get that when readers have more books to buy, an author stands to make more money to support his writing habit, but the proliferation model creates problems for both writers and readers. · Rebecca P. Minor

Christian Fiction = ???

Christian Fiction = (faith * imagination)2 / audience. Too complicated? Watch R. L. Copple attempt to unravel it. · R. L. Copple

Reaching Beyond Exclusive Readers

How can readers like me, the eclectic kind, find out about books we label “speculative”? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Managing The Minefield On The Way To Successful Publication

With the changes in the book industry, I think it’s helpful to discuss two particular elements of writing that lead to successful publication. By “successful” I mean selling to people other than our friends and family. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

My Writing Influences

Keven, you write dark paranormal Christian fiction. How in the world did you get there?? Glad you asked. · Keven Newsome

Fantastic or Not?

Does a change in skin color represent the original character or create a continuity problem? Michael B. Jordan may find out in playing the Human Torch. · R. L. Copple

There Be Dragons

In Surprised by Joy, C.S. Lewis describes those moments in which some earthly experience awakens us to the truth that there is more to the world than our earthly experience. · Jonathan Rogers
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